The Department of Justice has entered into a national settlement agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank requiring it to pay more than $50 million, including cash payments, mortgage loan credits and loan forgiveness, to over 25,000 homeowners who are or were in bankruptcy.

Bernhard Laufer, 58, a resident of Rego Park, Queens, New York, has pleaded guilty to sending threatening communications from New York to an employee of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) located in Washington, D.C.read more »

The exodus of Nigerians fleeing violence in the country’s north-eastern regions continues amid an influx of sixteen thousand refugees into neighbouring Cameroon, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).read more »

Researchers say a recent case of a 10-year-old boy who suffered seizures after over-indulging in licorice sweets suggests licorice sweet manufacturers should state a recommended daily amount as a safety measure.read more »

Researchers examined the association of nut consumption with mortality among low-income and racially diverse populations and found that intake of peanuts was associated with fewer deaths, especially from heart disease.read more »

A 58-year-old political consultant Kenneth Barfield (aka “Buddy Barfield”) was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for stealing more than $2.5 Million in campaign funds from former Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst.read more »

The estimated death toll caused by the continuing fighting in Ukraine has now surpassed the 6,000 mark, the United Nations human rights office said, amid broader warnings that the country stands on the brink of a “new and very deadly chapter” in its conflict.
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Researchers say there's evidence that the degree of income inequality in the United States can lead to a long list of health issues, including shortened life expectancy and poorer self-reported health status.read more »

The defendants in a scheme that charged Spanish-speaking consumers for unordered or defective products and made it costly or practically impossible for them to get their money back are banned from telemarketing and selling weight-loss products under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.read more »

Hundreds of children seized by armed men from a village in South Sudan have generated fears that “they are going from the classroom to the front line,” says the top United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative in that country who demanded their immediate release.read more »

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced a whistleblower award payout between $475,000 and $575,000 to a former company officer who reported original, high-quality information about a securities fraud that resulted in an SEC enforcement action with sanctions exceeding $1 million.read more »

Sad movies are bad news for diets. A newly reported study from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab showed movie-goers watching tearjerkers ate between 28% and 55% more popcorn both in the lab and in a mall theater during the Thanksgiving holiday.read more »

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a purported venture capital fund manager in Buffalo, N.Y., with fraudulently using money from three investment funds to pay fictitious returns to investors in a different fund.read more »

The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the "ongoing barbaric terrorist acts" committed by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and reaffirmed its determination in defeating the extremist group.read more »

Research published in the journal Psychological Science has shown that experiential purchases--money spent on doing--may provide more enduring happiness than material purchases (money spent on having). read more »

A team of Cornell University researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests heading for the hills, in the Rockies, to save your brains from the undead.read more »

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to establish new regulations protecting so-called net neutrality, or the equal treatment of all Internet traffic, has been described as "a real victory" for freedom of expression and access to information.read more »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has issued a white finding of low-to-moderate safety significance to the Palisades nuclear power plant for the failure to accurately calculate radiation doses to workers during an activity last year. read more »

In an age where digital media is constantly changing, public relations practitioners and business professionals still see the benefits of traditional media coverage, according to a recent University of Georgia study.read more »

New cases of Ebola rose again in Guinea and transmission remains widespread in Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported as it raised concerns about challenges in engaging communities to win the fight against the disease.read more »

In a briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, two senior relief officials warned that as the conflict enters its fifth year, the violence and brutality continue unabated and with total impunity.read more »

The rate at which tropical forests were cut, burned or otherwise lost from the 1990s through the 2000s accelerated by 62 percent, according to a new study which dramatically reverses a previous estimate of a 25 percent slowdown over the same period. read more »

European policymakers, healthcare workers, and parents must step up their efforts to vaccinate children against measles amid an ongoing outbreak across the continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.read more »

New-vehicle sales are expected to increase 8 percent year-over-year to a total of 1.29 million units in February 2015, resulting in an estimated 16.6 million seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), according to Kelley Blue Book.read more »

The FBI, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Rewards Program, has announced a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of a prolific cyber criminal. read more »

A criminal complaint has been unsealed in Brooklyn charging Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, Akhror Saidakhmetov, and Abror Habibov with attempt and conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Sea levels from New York to Newfoundland jumped up about four inches in 2009 and 2010 because ocean circulation changed, a University of Arizona-led team reports in an upcoming issue of Nature Communications.read more »

Sea levels from New York to Newfoundland jumped up about four inches in 2009 and 2010 because ocean circulation changed, a University of Arizona-led team reports in an upcoming issue of Nature Communications.read more »

A former senior vice president of Bank of America (BOA) in Las Vegas has pleaded guilty to misapplication of bank funds in a scheme that led to over $6.4 million in losses to BOA on two business-related loans.
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The FBI has announced the return to the Italian Government of two pieces of Italian cultural heritage — a work by 18th Century painter Giambattista Tiepolo and an ancient Etruscan bronze statuette of Herakles dating from the 6th or 5th Century B.C.E. read more »

The enormous humanitarian needs of the people of Ukraine have intensified since January this year, outstripping local capacities, observers in Ukraine said as the international community launched a new humanitarian appeal for the country.read more »

Relief agencies say the situation for Iraqi families recently displaced from Al Baghdadi district in the western province of Anbar is "very worrying" as they continue to be under siege from ISIS. read more »

An upsurge in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has triggered fresh displacement inside the country and across the border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency said.read more »

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when its subsidiaries paid bribes to land tire sales in Kenya and Angola. read more »

The Introduction of peanut products into the diets of infants at high risk of developing peanut allergy was safe and led to an 81 percent reduction in the subsequent development of the allergy, a clinical trial has found. read more »

This year is pivotal for global action on climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in New York, emphasizing that all the major advances of 2014 have set the stage for success in 2015.read more »

There is a significant risk to your privacy whenever you visit a health-related web page, with an analysis of over 80,000 such web pages showing that nine out of ten visits result in personal health information being leaked to third parties, including online advertisers and data brokers.read more »

A report released today details widespread human rights violations of an increasingly sectarian nature in Iraq, as well as a deterioration of the rule of law in large parts of the embattled country.read more »

Global pharmaceutical company Novartis AG has agreed to divest all assets related to its BRAF and MEK inhibitor drugs, currently in development, to Boulder, Colorado-based Array BioPharma to settle charges that Novartis’s $16 billion acquisition of GlaxoSmithKline’s portfolio of cancer-treatment drugs would likely be anticompetitive.read more »

A resume highlighting stellar professional credentials and experience could pique the interest of a prospective employer, but it's your voice that may actually help you land the job, according to researchers.read more »

The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company has pled guilty to a federal wire fraud charge and admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogates over the course of more than three years.read more »

The model of agricultural production that predominates today is not suitable for the new food security challenges of the 21st century and the need to be more sustainable, inclusive and resilient, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
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The 70 most popular videos depicting drunkenness on YouTube account for more than 330 million views, with little portrayal of the negative outcomes of excessive alcohol consumption, according to a new analysis. read more »